Topic: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

@Eel : And here I thought you were going to throw a Master Ball at it.

I prefer catching all of my shinies in Premier Balls too, but I think I've made a handful of exceptions (Onix springs to mind).

I grinded for 6 hours straight last night but at last.... I managed to get the Shiny Charm before heading out on my trip today.

(I'll add the image here when I get back)

This was probably one of the more fun dex's to complete out of the ones I have done simply due to both the catching mechanics working really well with that goal in mind and the dex itself being quite small (only the original 151 besides Mew). That being said, some of the Pokemon I had to get were extremely annoying to grab, particularly Hitmonlee for being a Special Spawn in only one floor of Victory Road, Clefable for being a 1% encounter at one level of Mt. Moon (I'm starting to notice a pattern) and Mewtwo. Mewtwo's a special case in the sense that he wasn't hard to find (he literally floats in the center of Cerulean Cave), but rather HOLY **** MY TEAM IS IMMEDIATELY DEAD. I had to grind 8 levels off of the wild Chansey above (which further illustrated my belief that Chansey is one of the best, most pure and wonderful Pokemon..... in anything but the main series games because it jus WOULDN'T. STAY. IN. THE. DAMN. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL) just to have a chance of beating him. However, once I did, I Master Ball'd that demon into oblivion and went to go grab my prize. I plan on going for either Voltorb, Horsea or Farfetch'd on my trip today and hopefully I can find one relatively quickly now. It only took me 24 attempts to find a shiny Rattata without the Charm so maybe? Hopefully? Please?

Hah I just used Pokémon Go to fill in the blanks on my dex. I think that’s what I did for the missing hitmon too.

Congrats on the shiny too! Charizard is a great shiny.

@Silly_G haha I don’t think I have one yet in this file. But at the current combo, an ultra ball might as well be the master ball.

Yeah I do prefer the premier balls for shinies, but I didn’t want to risk it running away. 😅

@Eel : Definitely not. I would only use a Premier Ball on a green-ringed encounter... and maybe on a yellow if I'm feeling lucky.

Hoo boy did a LOT happen to me with this game whilst I was on my trip (by the way, hello! I'm back!).

I had a mission before setting out on my trip: to find at least one shiny in Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu. I had grinded for 6 hours straight the previous night just to get my Shiny Charm beforehand so that way I'd have the highest odds possible. And thus, midway through my journey, I whipped it out and started to hunt. I had 2 targets I really wanted to nab: Voltorb or Horsea. I wanted something thematic to golf as a shiny and white-ish ball and something known for shooting into the air filled my quota perfectly. I attempt Voltorb first and, after countless failed combos due to both it's constant moving around and annoyingly frequent tendency to flee, I gave up (FOR NOW) and moved onto Horsea. After getting to a high enough chain without any issues (apart from one extremely close call with me being within literal frames of it running away before getting the hell out of there), I decided to just wait and see what popped up. After about 1 hour, I noticed something sparkling to my left just offscreen. I hurriedly run over to it.... only for it to be a bloody shiny Tentacool.... something I already have in PLA..... sigh.

I didn't have Tentacruel though, so I caught it, named it Sutenko and evolved it and, I've gotta say: I love those golden tentacles.

However, whilst I was still happy with my Tentacruel, I really wanted to get something other than something I'd already had before. So, when I got to the home we were staying in, I started up a catch combo for Caterpie, thinking that since they were so easy to catch, it should be easy. Fast forward 3 hours later and I had..... nothing. Not a single sparkle whatsoever. I could've continued it but between the time getting a bit too late for my liking and the downright horrendous lag of Viridian Forest when a Lure is up, much like the Voltorb before it, it was another hunt I gave up the ghost on. 2 days later (aka TODAY), I decided to start up a quick hunt for a shiny Mankey (a shiny I am a gigantic fan of purely because it reminds me of mint Aero balls) just outside of Cerulean City just to have it ready for the car journey ahead. Less than 5 minutes later, it pops up out of NOWHERE.

I didn't even have a catch combo of 10 mind you, let alone 11!

After that high, I felt absolutely unstoppable so I decided that the next one I would go for would be one I've been planning to do since getting LGPE: Slowpoke. I may not like the shiny, but I have a shiny Galarian Slowbro in Shield, I had to have the matching pair. And, after getting to a combo of 49, my beautiful slightly lighter hued Slowpoke appeared.

(it barely changes but I don't care)

In summary: I get terrible luck with the stuff I want but the most random spur of the moment decisions reap the most benefits (mostly).

Oh wow thats a lot if shinies!

You honestly have a little bit of a shiny dex going on.

@Eel Yeah you could say that.


I may have a problem.

Phew. With a final chain of 704, I finally have 3 shiny dratinis. Two of them in premier balls.

Thats enough for a full set, so I’ll leave the chain there.

Edit: a random shiny Zubat helped me break the chain! Thats so nice!

Well. It was bound to happen eventually.



I'm not complaining since this is actually my first shiny Chansey but it still kind of stings when I really wanted a Grimer.

I've given up shiny hunting for now, it burns me out and the rewards for hunting are really cool but not 30 hours cool.

I put all my Pokemon into HOME and I have deleted my save data. I want to play the game again before S&V comes out.

You can also just create a new profile on your switch if you want to start a new file

u@Eel I deleted my save because I want to be able to keep any shinys I get. None of my profies have accounts attached to them besides my main one.

I bought the game quite some time ago, but only made the save it self (just spawned into the game and saved) for in-game rewards in SwSh/BDSP/PL:A. xD
And let's help this petition for Latin American Spanish in Pokémon games: https://www.change.org/p/anmtvla-pokemonlatam-español-latino...
There was Portuguese/Brazilian-Portuguese movement as well, bet it was movement aka # and such as, so don't remember how help for that one, because I not # and tweeter person that much.

@SViper Change.org petitions don't normally work from what I know. But I guess I'll vote because that is a messed up situation with the languages.

@Kermit1 yeah, but better then doing nothing.

@Kermit1 with pokemon home, you can select any profile to extract pokemon from within the app itself. So you could just use your one profile with access to home to open the app, and yoink the pokemon from any profile on the switch.

@Eel too late... Turns out Oddish is really powerful in the beginning of the game. I put the partner Pikachu in a box and caught a regular one to evolve into Raichu.

I cannot believe what just happened.

I've been hunting Venonat on and off in Pikachu for the last month or so with no luck (I'm currently 190+ encounters) and, just when I all hope seemed lost on getting a shiny today and I was about to call it quits, who would happen to appear but a giant green dragon in the sky?


It may not have been a Venonat but I'm not complaining in the slightest! I Ultra-Balled that thing as fast as a I could and added them to the team. Oh, and as for the name? I called them Weesnaw (which is probably one of my favourite nicknames I've ever come up with honestly).

So: after grabbing that absolute beauty, I went off to Cerulean Cave to grab some respawning items so I could buy more Pokeballs for next time. AND THEN PROCEEDED TO GET THIS.

Do you want to know the amount of time between me finding my shiny Dragonite and me picking up that Master Ball? 4 minutes. FOUR. BLOODY. MINUTES.

I am the living definition of 'you wait a month for something good to happen and then 2 amazing things come at once'. AND I DON'T CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST BABY WOOOHOOO.

The luck fairy is following you!